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I’m soooo bored…still under house arrest for being sick. Cannot got out coz in UK its cold n cold air outside not good for coughs.
Last Sunday after church I went church hunting after attending Sunday service at Jesmond Parish Church(JPC). I wanna know where is Holy Trinity church coz hoping to go there the coming Sunday. However, church hunting when I havn’t fully recovered yet was a BIG mistake…tats y never got healed until now.
I went around asking ppl for directions to Holy Trinity but felt like as if I’ve been played a fool by them. Some people here…dunno where also wanna act smart (even the rev there! >.<”). Dunno just say dunno lah. Make me walk round n round so many times. That church itself is about 1 mile which is 1.6km from city center. I live near there so it’s about tat walking distance.
Before I went haunting, I did some research but could find the exact address of that church. Only got some vague direction and a picture from the website http://www.htjesmond.org/ there!
I asked the locals for the direction the first time and found this!
I was like hmm….it does look something like it…but since I din bring tat picture from the website, I vaguely remember it’s something like tat also but something seems to be a little off. Then I saw it…it was something else written at the sign board. It’s Jesmond United Reformed Church(JUR). Got the below pic from http://www.jesmond-urc.org.uk/
I took pic of JUR church just in case I couldn’t find Holy Trinity and wanted to compare it with the one on the website. I was thinking hhmm…maybe Holy Trinity close down liao then REFORMED into Jesmond United REFORMED Church.
 This is JUR side view.
As I was taking the pics…this “Good Samaritan” kinda old guy came to rescue me. He asked me if I’m looking for a church. I said yes, I’m looking for Holy Trinity Church. He said tat one there is JUR, not Holy Trinity. I was like -.-” obviously coz it was on the sign board. I was hoping he will tell me a long grandpa story tat tells the transformation of Holy Trinity to JUR and save my time looking for another Holy Trinity.
He took out a very old and crumpled map from his truck and showed me where he thinks Holy Trinity is. He gave me the direction of Jesmond Parish Church…where I just came from -.-” I told him it’s not but he insisted it’s there and there r 2 churches near the Jesmond Metro. (JPC is right beside Metro)
So, since he is a local n I’m an international la….i took his advice and walk back towards JPC. Sheesh….some ask me to go to the east then another ask me walk back to the west >.<”
Whatever…I walked back to JPC to ask another person again…they say it was back there where I came from. I was like ggrrrr…so I went back down tat road…then as I was crossing the road I saw tat old guycoming out of the junction in his truck >.<” he signaled me and I just shake my head indicating its not there. Yiuu…he got truck I dun have leh. It’s far u know.
Not giving up…I walk further down tat road. At one point there was this junction, I look down the end of it and say a little pointed roof (most churches roof design is sumthing like tat). I asked the people walking from tat junction and they say it is Holy Trinity! Yay!
U know in kl…when u saw KLCC’s pointed thing up there n try to walk towards it? It’s not as near as it seems to be. Thank God tat church is not too tall. Else will be like KLCC where u keep walking towards it but can never reach it. It took me about at least 10 min to walk down tat road to reach the end.
Finally I reach it…took a pic of it with satisfaction. ^-^
 yay~
Since I found the church…was so relieved and I choose to try to use the main road at the highway to go back. Thank God I used this way coz it’s much shorter but still very far la.
As I on my way home, I came across this…
Yikes…it’s a grave yard but its soo pretty! Looks like a park!
This is the entrance…
And it was labeled All Saints Cemetery 1836. Wow…My home church was All Saints Church…now I’ve found it’s Cemetery~!
It was open and I think public can go in. I was tempted so…into the graveyard I went!
This is how it looks like once u walk past the gates.
It was extremely peaceful there…the grass is green n the birds chirping. The only scary thing I was all alone in tat huge graveyard >.<”
I started to take pic n my phone runs out of battery…eeks!
 One last pic i manage to take…
I generally pay them respect and decided to go home. By tat time I walk out no more battery to take any pic of my departure…
So I got this pic from this blog (Newcatle actually has a BLOG~!) http://newcastlephotos.blogspot.com/2006/06/all-saints-cemetery.html
This is how it looks like when walking out. I think it’s very pretty~
And this is the overall route I walk tat day.
 I think could b abot 4km
Kind to think of it…I’m such a weirdo…instead of visiting museums I visited the Cemetery =p
But isn’t tat what makes me special? 
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